Sue Klebold speaking engagement in Vermont

acinnamon-girl:

If you’re lucky enough to live in Vermont – or its general vicinity – you have the chance to hear Sue Klebold speak at Burlington’s Howard Center’s Fall Community Education Series next month. I recently missed out on the chance to hear Sue in Colorado – she was in Keystone the day before I got there, and I had no knowledge of it – and subsequently am extra keen to spread the word so that other people aren’t as unlucky as I was!

Here’s the info:

BURLINGTON, VT—Howard Center’s – free and open to the public—Fall
Community Education Series kicks off on Wednesday, September 26, with a
talk by Sue Klebold, national speaker and author of “A Mother’s
Reckoning” and mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the shooters from
Columbine High School.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Ms.
Klebold remained out of the public eye while struggling with devastating
grief and humiliation. Her search for understanding would span 15
years, during which she volunteered for suicide prevention
organizations, questioned experts, talked with fellow survivors of loss,
and examined the crucial intersection between mental health problems
and violence. As a result, Sue became a passionate advocate, dedicated
to the advancement of mental health awareness and intervention.

Copies
of her book will be available at the presentation, and all author
profits from the sale of her book will be donated to organizations that
promote mental wellness, brain research, and suicide prevention.

The
talk will be followed by a Q & A and a panel presentation. This
first session in the Fall Community Education Series will be at the
South Burlington High School at 550 Dorset Street, South Burlington,
from 6:00-8:00 p.m.

The presenting underwriter for the Fall Series
is Hickok & Boardman Insurance Group, with additional support
provided by Dealer.com, Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM), and
VTDigger. Other topics in the Fall Community Education Series include a
screening of the documentary “Crazy” on October 11 and a panel
discussion on “Vaping, E-cigarettes, and JUUL: The Facts behind the
Smokescreen” on November 1.

For more information, visit howardcenter.org or contact Martie Majoros at 488-6911 or mmajoros@howardcenter.org.

Signal boost^^

The next Sue Klebold presentation will be held next month, Wednesday, September 26th at Howard’s Center in Burlington, VT. Free to the public. 

rebs-wisdom:

Dylan’s paper for Mr. Webb’s class titled Senior Predictions, written August 20th, 1998

He predicts that he’ll have more fun his senior year and talks a lot about college and planning for his future. He says, “I (probably) will be deciding what the rest of my life looks like.“

“Printer screwed up”

He either didn’t care how it printed or he didn’t have time to print another because he wrote it the day it was due.

(Eric’s senior expectation essay here)

Senior year started for Dylan and Eric on August 18, 1998, twenty years ago.
August 20th, the day Dylan wrote ‘Senior Predictions’, would be the same day his mother wrote this journal entry.

Who was Eric talking about in the 911 call? “That bitch ain’t staying alive got get her.”

I don’t hear that at all. period. My strong opinion on this is that people listen to that audio and hear what they want to hear out of it. It’s so poor quality that people desperately want to hear Reb and Vodka doing the deed in the library.  So with every little sound, people form stuff into a phrase, etc. It’s basically pareidolia. No two people ever hear the same thing with that dang audio clip. I do not hear even half the things people claim they hear. It’s a bit ridiculous honestly. So, who was Eric talking about?  No one, nothing, plus that patterning in that particular section of the audio from youtube doesn’t even sound like Eric at all. It’s very high pitched. It’s just frankly silliness. 

In No Easy Answers Brooks Brown suggested multiple theories on why Dylan slipped him the note. One suggestion that I find particularly interesting is that Eric deliberately told Dylan to tell Brooks so it could make Brooks mad? How credible do you believe this theory is?

If that was the case then why would Dylan need to tell Brooks not to mention to Eric that he told him about it?  I tend to think that Brooks has over thought about it to the point of distorting the actual situation into something convolutedly paranoid. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck, then it probably is just simply a duck. Brooks has stated upon a couple of occasions that he and Dylan never had a falling out and that Dylan was stuck in the middle of the tensions between Eric and Brooks long-standing feud.  I explored Dylan’s (rather simple) motivations for telling Brooks and asking him not to tell Eric he told him in this post.    

Wait Nate had family problems? I thought he was happy and carefree (thus not able to relate to Dylan’s depression)

Nate was an easy going dude personality wise but that doesn’t mean his life was a piece of cake. I’m sure there was plenty of male friction in his home in the form of Nate getting older yet having to deal with a stepfather acting like ‘the dad’ and his mom probably reinforcing that which pissed him off which made him want to spend less time at home  After his graduation, Nate had planned to move to Florida to live with his real dad and pursue a career at Microsoft but after the tragedy occurred, Nate instead ended up secretly high tailing it to Florida. He was extremely pissed off at his mom for accusing him to be complicit with his two friends who’d turned into killers. His mom arbitrarily searched his bedroom and threw out his metal music and anything else she felt was influencing her son to align with E and D.  He left literally a day or so after the massacre. He’s lived in Florida ever since.  So, I would say that his preference was for living with his real dad than his mom.

Did e&d ever go to boulder that we know of

Yes, Dylan and Eric did drive up to Boulder for some gaming with a gamer friend of Erics.  This was spoken about in the Brandon Martine “Jester” interview.

GESI: Where was it that you met Vodka?

MARTINE: “Um, I think it was the first time online which was on the BBS when he said uh, um, my friend’s gonna play ‘cause uh, he’s here with me and I said what’s his name, you know, and I think he even signed up on Mystical Realms, he signed up as uh, Vodka on there and uh, then the first time when I met uh, Reb, he brought his friend, which was Vodka, his friend and if I do remember correctly, when we did go up to Boulder, we parked in a parking lot and he drove a BMW.”

GESI: Who did?

MARTINE: “Vodka. He (Reb) said that he didn’t drive, he said Vodka had to drive.”

GESI: So Vodka drove a BMW that was his dad’s or his own?

MARTINE: “Um, I’m not so sure about that. I do remember him talking about how he said he wanted to get a nice car though ’cause I was talking to him about that.”

So, Dylan told Brooks about the threatening website Eric made, right? Forgive me if this has already been asked but did Eric ever find out Dylan told brooks? This has been bothering me for a few days and I can’t seem to find an answer on it, so I figured you were the best person to ask.

Not a problem. As long as you took the effort to look. 🙂   We can’t be certain but I think it’s fairly safe to say that no, Eric never found out that Dylan told Brooks about the website.  If he had, you can bet that Eric would’ve been pretty pissed about it and so we would’ve likely heard from their friends about the incident as a fight that had occurred between them.  Eric may have felt that Dylan betrayed loyalties by informing Brooks and it might’ve caused Eric to start rejecting his friendship with Dylan. Otoh, Dylan was pretty much the only tight friendship Eric had so perhaps he would’ve only given Dylan a hard time about it.  Regardless, there does not seem to be an accounting from their friends that a rift between them occurred.  So, my conclusion here is that no, Eric never found out.

you don’t think sue washed Dylan’s baseball cap? she just left it bloody? wouldn’t that of been a painful reminder of what happened

I feel as though Sue wouldn’t have washed his ballcap.  Washing his blood out of it to make it all clean would’ve essentially been like trying to deny everything all away. Her son’s blood had spilled by his own hand and soaked through that hat which he always wore every day of his life. His own lifeforce was infused in that hat. As morbid as it sounds, I do think Sue would’ve carefully preserved his ballcap and stored it along with a handful of other special belongings.  It would be a painful reminder, yes, but everything about Dylan would always be a painful reminder. It could never not be that after 4/20. But regardless of that pain, Sue needed to feel that close connection to her boy.  Just as she had done by wearing his clothing in the months after the tragedy.  Dylan had been cremated and there was nothing left of him physically..except for his precious blood spilled on his prized homespun ballcap She could hold that hat to her cheek and cry tears of unending heartache and loss for her beloved son that she loved so dearly and not only lost by his own hand but intertwined with disgrace.  And those tears of sorrow would mix with the dark dried blood-drenched cap and she would feel closer to him and all his hidden, silent suffering that she somehow missed.  It just wouldn’t be quite the same had she held his freshly washed ballcap. Symbolically, that would’ve been like washing a piece of Dylan down the washing machine drain.